Haitang thought back to what Xie Wenzai had said, and said to Haijiao: "Brother doesn't need to worry too much about this. I reminded my cousin that I should beware of the fact that after the second room of the Jin family arrives in Chang'an, he will find an excuse to take Jin Jiashu away. Uncle Cousin should have taken it to heart, and he wouldn't let people take Jin Jiashu out of the Zhou family's sphere of influence. ”

Having said that, Haijiao can't be completely reassured: "If the Duke of Zhenguo takes him into the mansion to live, I will find him in the future, but it will not be so convenient." Of course, the most important thing is that if there are too many Zhou family members around, he wants to influence Jin Jiashu according to his own ideas, so he has a lot of scruples.

Now he went to the Zhou family's three-room village to talk to Jin Jiashu, and he had to pay attention to avoiding the guards from the veteran Zhuangzi. If Jin Jiashu lived directly in the Zhou family, he would have to beware of the wall with ears, and he would have to be careful when he spoke. Although he was confident that he could coax Jin Jiashu, he really didn't dare to be too sure about the veterans of the Zhou family who had been in battle for a long time.

Haitang didn't care much about this: "My brother doesn't have bad intentions, and he doesn't plan to coax Jin Jiashu to do anything bad, just be generous and communicate with friends." Even if the people of the Zhou family hear what you say, what can they do? If you hide the affairs of the Zhou family, Jin Jiashu will also hide it from you. Lie to each other, who still owes and who can't? In addition to these secrets that can't be said, when you get along with each other, you are sincere for sincere. My brother is sincerely sharing his worries for his friends, what can others find fault with you? ”

Listening to his sister's words, Haijiao couldn't help but reflect on himself.

He befriended Jin Jiashu, in fact, he has always had a utilitarian mentality. Right now, Jin Jiashu is in distress and at a loss, he looks enthusiastic to help, and he can naturally move the other party. But hypocrisy may be able to coax people for a while, but it can't be coaxed for a lifetime, and after a long time, it will inevitably reveal flaws. When the time comes, no matter how good a friend is, he may turn against him.

If he is determined to be a good friend with Jin Jiashu for life, then he should show sincerity and truly regard the other party as a close friend, so that the friendship can last for a long time. Even if there is a conflict between the two ideas in the future, the friendship over the years is not fake, and there will be a little more leeway in case of trouble.

The reef made up its mind, and he heard someone calling him outside the door. It turned out that Xie Wenzai knew that he was going home and sent Cui Xiaodao to call him to talk.

Haijiao turned around and exchanged glances with his sister Begonia, and then raised his feet and went to the front yard.

Begonia went back to the house to read. In the cold winter weather, the grinding ink is not good, so she simply reduced the time to practice calligraphy and painting. Even for needlework, she was afraid that her fingers would freeze, so she put it down for the time being. As long as grandmother Ma doesn't urge, she will be happy. When she had kung fu, she nested in her own room, sitting cross-legged on the kang, reading warmly. If no one disturbs her, she can still practice internal skills for a while.

When the sun was in the west, the light outside the window dimmed, she put down her books, did eye exercises for a while, and began to move her hands and feet, planning to go to the garden of the second courtyard to practice martial arts for a while while the meal had not yet started.

She was only halfway through her warm-up when she heard the footsteps of the reef approaching, and she felt a little heavy. She secretly wondered in her heart, as soon as she heard Haijiao knocking on the door, she immediately opened the door and let him into the house: "Brother, what's wrong?" Did my cousin tell you any bad news? ”

"Nothing bad." Haijiao sat down at the table, looking like he wanted to say something, "What my cousin told me is similar to what you told me before, but there are many more details. He knew that I was concerned about the progress of the Jin family's case, so he specially said some more about the content of Zhang Pinggui's confession. But I wanted to ask about the third room of the Zhou family, but he didn't want to say too much, just chatted casually about some side matters. ”

"If that's all there is, why are you the way you are?" Haitang sat down across from him, "Uncle Cousin doesn't want to say too much about the Zhou family's three rooms, isn't it normal." Now the Zhenguo Mansion pays more attention to the conspiracy of the Sun family and the betrayal of Zhou Shuyi's mother and daughter, as well as the ghosts in the northwest border army who collude with the Sun family, etc., which is a major event related to the safety and future of the entire Zhou family!

"As for the Jin family's case, all the murderers have been arrested, and the main messengers, the crime process and the evidence behind them are also very clear, so they naturally won't pay too much attention. If it weren't for Zhang Pinggui's usefulness, they would have to interrogate again, but I am afraid that now everyone will be handed over to the Chang'an Mansion. Later interrogation, sentencing, reporting and other matters, Zhou Jiaming will no longer interfere on the surface, and all will be handled by the prefect. Even if Uncle Cousin doesn't mention it now, you will be able to find out from elsewhere sooner or later, so he doesn't plan to hide it from you anymore. ”

Hai Jiao pursed his lips: "Zhang Pinggui probably knows this. He looked forward to staying in the Zhenguo Mansion for a while longer, and did not want to be handed over to the government office, for fear that if he went to the government prison, his life would not be saved. How did the six killers in the government prison die, and the government has not found out the truth so far. Zhang Pinggui himself only knew that this matter was arranged by Du Boqin, but he didn't know exactly what he did.

"Du Boqin is still doing a good job as the commander of the avant-garde in Chang'an, and the Zhou family has not removed him, how dare Zhang Pinggui take risks? Therefore, now he confesses and refuses to confess quickly. In order to delay time, he knew that Zhen Guogong wanted to know more about the Sun family and the ghosts, but he used the trivial news of the Zhou family's third room to prevaricate. However, these things are all related to the Zhou family, and the people of the Zhenguo Mansion can only listen patiently, and they are very angry. ”

Haitang raised her eyebrows, and guessed a few points in her heart: "Are there any other moths in the third room of the Zhou family?" Can you actually make your brother upset? She thought that Haijiao didn't have much affection for her aunt Zhou Ma.

Haijiao smiled bitterly and sighed: "It's not that it's a moth, it's just ...... At the beginning, Zhang Pinggui disguised himself as an orphan of Zhou Shicheng's old department, and before entering the third room of the Zhou family, Mrs. Ma had some considerations about his identity......"

According to Zhang Pinggui's own statement, he didn't plan to enter the third room of the Zhou family so early. At the beginning, the plan that the Sun family told him was that he would first assist the remaining seven killer companions to solve the Jin family, and then the others would meet with the dead soldiers of the Sun family of Du Zhuangzi, and there were other tasks to complete, while Zhang Pinggui himself would have to accept the teaching of his henchmen sent by Du Boqin, and strive to learn the skills that a soldier should master within a few months. When Zhou Shuyi exerts his strength and arranges the location for Yingchuan Hou Shizi to practice in the future, Du Boqin will arrange for him to go to the guard in advance to prepare. In this way, when the Hou Shizi of Yingchuan appeared there, he saw Zhang Pinggui as an ordinary soldier and would not be suspicious.

The third room of the Zhou family should have been the place where Zhang Pinggui was expected to hide after killing the Hou Shizi of Yingchuan. This can also make it easier for the Yingchuan Marquis Mansion to directly identify the Zhou family's third room as the culprit when they find out about him in the future. And Zhang Pinggui has Du Boqin secretly responding, and it is not difficult to get out.

However, because the Hai family suddenly appeared at the scene of the Jin family's murder, the veterans of the Zhou family intervened in the investigation of the murder, which made Zhang Pinggui's identity exposed in advance. Although Du Boqin sent someone to rescue him, he was also worried that he would be implicated, so he stuffed him into the third room of the Zhou family in advance, disrupting the original plan.

His arrival surprised Mrs. Ma, and she didn't know how to arrange his identity in a hurry. Approaching the end of the year, relatives walked around during the Chinese New Year, and foreign soldiers went home to visit relatives, and the identities of all relatives and family friends could not be used, and they were easy to be debunked by acquaintances, so she had to fabricate the identity of a son's orphan in the old department, and let Zhang Pinggui rarely see outsiders.

Such an identity made Zhang Pinggui quite despised in the third room of the Zhou family, and his movement was also restricted. He complained to Mrs. Ma, but she retorted, saying that everything was his fault for coming too suddenly. She originally planned to make him a cousin, but who told him not to act according to plan?

(End of chapter)